Dada to Digital

Photography over time has become a way to record the changes in culture that were hard to see before.  Photography was also changed by the cultural changes, especially during the major changes caused by scientific breakthroughs.  These breakthroughs changed the way people thought about the human race. Art changed in many different ways as people tried to adjust to this new way of thinking. Art also had to adjust to the invention of the computer.  Computers became a way to make new kinds of art, but computers are continuously changing and art changes with it.  Cubilism and Futurism were in part created as a response to the changes occurring at the time.   But the Dadaists decided to respond directly to the culture at the time.  They created art for the political effect it would have and not for its aesthetic appeal.  They ignored many of the rules if art followed by other artists and created something new.  After Dadaism came surrealism which was a little more like traditional art in the sense that it was made as a complete, finished piece of art.  They made people think through the subject of their art instead of the political message behind it.  Next came Pop art which showed the repetitive culture of the time.  Then art was changed again by technology as televisions became a part of art.  Art will continue to be changed by science and technology.  Today we face changes in photography because we are now able to store more information on computers and editing techniques are continuously improving.